Gender hurdle for race champ

As far as Semenya’s father is concerned, Caster is his girl, writes Dan Buckley.

JACOB SEMENYA doesn’t care what anyone thinks, be they runners, athlete officials, sports commentators, gender specialists or newspapers. As far as he is concerned, Caster is his little girl.

He watched the South African athlete realise a lifelong dream by winning the Women’s 800m at the 2009 World Athletics championships in Berlin and, no matter what anyone says, he believes she deserves to savour every moment of her dramatic victory.